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Hackerrific is a University of Hawaii implementation of a twitter client for real-time display of 
captured tweets from developers within the Hackystat Version 8.0 system.  
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Hackystat 8.0 implements a web service architecture in which individual services communicate
using REST principles.  For more information, see the 
<a href="http://code.google.com/p/hackystat/">Hackystat Version 8 Home Page</a>.  For access
to code, documentation, and other project materials on Hackerrific, please consult the 
<a href="http://code.google.com/p/hackystat-ui-hackerrific/">Hackerrific Home Page</a>.
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The "Hackerrific" widget is a twitter client for this architecture, which is responsible for:
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<li>Providing an interface to the social networking.</li>
<li>Leverage the twitter Restful technology for communication.</li>
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To accomplish these tasks, the Hackerrific widget is organized into the following subpackages:
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<li> org.hackystat.ui.hackerrific.client, which implements the user inetrface.</li>
<li> org.hackystat.ui.hackerrific.server, which implements RPC calls for network activity.</li>
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This Hackerrific widget uses the 
<a href="http://www.google.com/GoogleWebToolkit/">Google Web Toolkit</a> framework to support
its AJAX procedure calls and Widget interface elements. 
This Hackerrific widget also uses the <a href="http://www.restlet.org/">Restlet</a> framework to
support its interface to REST-architecturd Twitter server.
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